{"id":859,"date":"2019-06-03T05:33:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T05:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it\/en\/?page_id=859"},"modified":"2022-11-25T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T10:14:22","slug":"sala-8-sala-del-sileno","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/galleriaborghese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/il-museo\/la-villa\/sala-8-sala-del-sileno\/","title":{"rendered":"Room 8 &#8211; Silenus Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-859\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-859-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-859-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-859-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>This room, the last one on the Villa\u2019s ground floor, is named after the Silenus to recall the group with <em>Silenus and the Infant Dionysos<\/em><em>, <\/em>now in the Louvre in consequence of the sale of the archaeological collection to Napoleon in 1807. The work was replaced with the <em>Dancing Satyr<\/em> restored by <strong>Bertel Thorvaldsen<\/strong> (1770-1844), who added the crotala, a musical instrument similar to cymbals. The decoration of the ceiling and the architectural design of the walls date from 1775-78. <strong>Tommaso Maria Conca<\/strong> (1734-1822) painted the canvas in the centre of \u00a0the ceiling, which portrays the <em>Sacrifice to Silenus<\/em>, and the two \u00a0monochrome frescos on the sides with <em>Silenus Inebriated <\/em>and <em>Silenus Returns Bacchus to King Midas<\/em>. The figures of the baccantes, satyrs, and sileni are arranged in an elaborate architectural trompe-l\u2019oeil by <strong>Giovan Battista Marchetti<\/strong> (1730-1800).<\/p>\n<p>The room is famous for the presence of six of the twelve paintings by <strong>Caravaggio<\/strong> (1571-1610) originally owned by the cardinal. The oldest are the Boy with a Basket of Fruit and the Self-portrait as Bacchus or Sick Bacchus through Paul V\u2018s confiscation of paintings from <strong>Cavalier d\u2019Arpino<\/strong> (1568-1640). (Two paintings by the latter are present in the room: <em>The Capture of Christ <\/em>and <em>The Abduction of Europa<\/em>.) The four others (<em>St. Jerome<\/em><em>,<\/em> the Madonna and Child with St. Anne, St. John the Baptist and David with the Head of Goliath) belong to the artist\u2019s most mature period.. Also noteworthy are works of late-Mannerist painters, such as <em>Joseph and Potiphar\u2019s Wife <\/em>by <strong>Cigoli<\/strong> (1559-1613) and <em>Judith with the Head of Holofernes <\/em>by <strong>Giovanni Baglione<\/strong> (1566-1643). The paintings by <strong>Dirck van Baburen<\/strong> (1595-1624), the <em>Capture of Christ<\/em>, and the <strong>Master of the Judgment of Solomon<\/strong>, the <em>Judgment of Solomon<\/em>, attest the spread of the Caravaggesque style.<\/p>\n<p>As in the rest of the palazzina, ancient Roman busts and statues from the large Borghese archaeological collection are placed at regular intervals along the walls.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This room, the last one on the Villa\u2019s ground floor, is named after the Silenus to recall the group with Silenus and the Infant Dionysos, now in the Louvre in consequence of the sale of the archaeological collection to Napoleon in 1807. 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